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1895: Is Jack the Ripper at large on the streets of Victorian India?
Blood Caste
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When three bodies are discovered with mutilations bearing an eerie resemblance to the Ripper’s Whitechapel victims, Chief Inspector Soobramania – known as Soob – is summoned to investigate.
Suspicion alights upon three powerful men: a Russian grand duke and an English earl visiting the city, and their friend, a Deccani noble, who is also the stepson of one of the victims.
Faced with the thorny imperial politics of accusing relatives of Queen Victoria, Soob must ally with his rival in the British Residency Police, Inspector Wilberforce, to hunt down the killer.
So begins a deadly game of cat and mouse played in the shadow of empire, where high birth protects foul deeds and where spilt blood counts for less than wealth.
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Hyderabad India – 1895
“When Soob first saw the body, he thought it was a dog. In the dim light of dusk, looking over to the bank of the British Residency from under the city bastions, he’d glimpsed something caught on the rick weir across the Musi River.
He’d been out looking for a rare purple from in the mudflats between the Laik ud-Dowlah and Afzul Bridges…..
“He dismounted at the City Police HQ – a two storey building painted the green of a Koran….”
BookTrail Boarding Pass: Blood Caste
Destination/location: Hyderabad Author/guide: Shylashri Shankar Departure Time: 1895
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